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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Snows of Kilimanjaro.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Near Harry and his mistress’s camp under the trees, the narrator describes a nearly dry water hole where what animals come to in the mornings?
(a) Sea eagles
(b) Vultures
(c) Elephants
(d) Sand grouse

2. What kind of tree is Harry’s cot described as sitting under in the beginning of the story?
(a) A mimosa tree
(b) A coconut tree
(c) A beech tree
(d) A palm tree

3. What drink does Harry ask the African servant to bring him in the beginning of the story?
(a) Whiskey-soda
(b) Ginger ale
(c) Rum and soda
(d) Lemonade

4. For how long was Harry’s group snow-bound in Harry’s flashback to his time at the mountain huts by Schrunz?
(a) 3 weeks
(b) 2 days
(c) 1 week
(d) 2 weeks

5. As Harry dies in the end of the story, his companion hears what animal stop whimpering and begin to make a strange human sound?
(a) A vulture
(b) A zebra
(c) A leopard
(d) A hyena

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was Tristan Tzara born?

2. The author’s preface to “The Snows of Kilimanjaro” states that Mount Kilimanjaro is how many feet high?

3. The name of the western summit of Mt. Kilimanjaro translates to what in English, according to the author’s preface to the story?

4. The Sette Communi was a group of municipalities in the Veneto region that spoke what language?

5. What does Harry’s mistress repeatedly ask him if he’d like her to do in the beginning of the story?

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